Communications Regulatory Authority

3.1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
AGCOM’s role in the international dimension
The year just ended represented a very significant moment in AGCOM’s
institutional commitment on the international scene.
In the first place, the European legislation reform processes started to go into full
swing, with regard to both the electronic communications sector (with the so-called
Review 2006), and the audiovisual sector (with the revision of the “TV Without
Frontiers” directive), the results of which are bound to affect the role and activities of
the national Authorities called upon to apply the new European regulations. AGCOM
has devoted particular attention to these processes, taking an active part and presenting
proposals and documents of in-depth analysis in the various institutional venues.
More in general, AGCOM has verified the growing importance of the
international dimension in the sectors of its jurisdiction, also seen in the progressive
diffusion of market integration processes and in the industrial aggregation operations
taking place worldwide. For this reason, it was AGCOM’s intention to ensure an
increasingly assiduous and qualified presence in the international discussion and assume
a leadership role on several topics of particular importance in European-level discussion
(for example, on the topics of regulatory accounting and international roaming, within
the framework of the European Regulators Group – ERG).
Consistent with this policy line, AGCOM continued its institutional
commitment, at the various international venues, of development and discussion of the
themes regarding electronic communications (in addition to the above-mentioned ERG,
worthy of mention are the Communications Committee and the Radio Spectrum
Committee) and audiovisuals (the High-Level Group of National Regulatory
Authorities, the Contact Committee, the Standing Committee on Transfrontier
Television, and the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities), and worked on
strengthening and expanding the network of relations with foreign authorities and
institutions, through the formalization of bilateral agreements and twinning projects, as
well as the holding of meetings and information exchanges.
Electronic communications
Over the past few years, the European Regulators Group (ERG) has undoubtedly
made a name for itself as a privileged place of development and comparison between
the European Commission and the national Authorities on the main regulatory themes
regarding the electronic communications sector.
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